The most extensive list of titles we publish is in archaeology. Our founder, Mitch Allen, is part of the tribe, after all. In building this collection of books, we have tried to focus on what we see as the future of the field: professionalization of the academic discipline; the connection between archaeologists, indigenous communities and other stakeholders; the importance of educating the public in the value of our work. Thus, you will see we publish many things that fall under the rubric of public archaeology and heritage studies.
But not exclusively. The field has many dimensions and you can find here everything from site reports to methodological works to theretical treatises, from regional syntheses to teaching novels to textbooks. We have archaeology for the specialist, archaeology for the public and more than a small dose of archaeology for students. Note that we publish videos and journals as well as books. We hope you will look to us first to meet your needs in research, practice and teaching. Look at our list of series and our books for courses to get the flavor of our publications program.
Nor are we ideaologically driven. Processual or post, academic or CRM, feminist, evolutionist, or marxist, we welcome them all under the Left Coast umbrella.
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The Acconia Survey: Neolithic Settlement and the Obsidian Trade
A J Ammerman |
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African Re-Genesis
Confronting Social Issues in the Diaspora
Jay B. Haviser (Editor), Kevin C. MacDonald (Editor) |
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Agency Uncovered
Archaeological Perspectives on Social Agency, Power, and Being Human
Andrew Gardner (Editor) |
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American Industrial Archaeology
A Field Guide
Douglas C. McVarish |
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Ancient Egypt in Africa
David O'Connor (Editor), Andrew Reid (Editor) |
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Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau
Steven R. Simms |
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Ancient Perspectives on Egypt
Roger Matthews (Editor), Cornelia Roemer (Editor) |
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Ancient Starch Research
Robin Torrence (Editor), Huw Barton (Editor) |
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Archaeological Approaches to Technology
Heather Margaret-Louise Miller |
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Archaeological Field Schools
A Guide for Teaching in the Field
Jane Eva Baxter |
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The Archaeological Imagination
Michael Shanks |
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Archaeological Parenchyma
Jon G. Hather |
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Archaeological Sediments and Soils
Analysis, Interpretation and Management
Anthony J. Barham, Richard I MacPhail |
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The Archaeological Survey Manual
Gregory G. White (Author), Thomas F. King (Author) |
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Archaeological Surveys in Baluchistan, 1948 and 1957
Beatrice de Cardi |
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Archaeologies of Art
Time, Place, and Identity
Inés Domingo Sanz (Editor), Dánae Fiore (Editor), Sally K. May (Editor) |
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Archaeologies of Placemaking
Monuments, Memories, and Engagement in Native North America
Patricia E. Rubertone (Editor) |
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Archaeologist's Book of Quotations
K Kris Hirst |
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Archaeology Matters
Action Archaeology in the Modern World
Jeremy A. Sabloff |
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Archaeology and Capitalism
From Ethics to Politics
Yannis Hamilakis (Editor), Philip Duke (Editor) |
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Archaeology and Women
Sue Hamilton (Editor), Ruth D. Whitehouse (Editor), Katherine I. Wright (Editor) |
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Archaeology and the Media
Timothy Clack (Editor), Marcus Brittain (Editor) |
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Archaeology is a Brand!
The Meaning of Archaeology in Contemporary Popular Culture
Cornelius Holtorf (Author) |
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An Archaeology of Identity
Soldiers and Society in Later Roman Britain
Andrew Gardner (Author) |
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Archaeology of Religion
Cultures and their Beliefs in Worldwide Context
Sharon R. Steadman |
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The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life
Theresa A. Singleton (Editor) |
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Archaeology of the Southeastern United States
Paleoindian to World War I
Judith A. Bense |
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Archaeology of the Southwest, Second Edition
Linda S. Cordell |
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Archaeology to Delight and Instruct
Active Learning in the University Classroom
Heather Burke (Editor), Claire Smith (Editor) |
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Archaeology, History and Science
Integrating Approaches to Ancient Materials
Marcos Martinón-Torres (Editor), Thilo Rehren (Editor) |
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Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest
James L. Phillips (Editor), James A. Brown (Editor) |
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Artifact Classification
A Conceptual and Methodological Approach
Dwight W. Read (Author) |
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Avoiding Archaeological Disasters
A Risk Management Approach
Darby Stapp (Author), Julia Longenecker (Author) |
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The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors
Archaeology of Mesoamerica, Third Edition
Muriel Porter Weaver |
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Basketry Technology
A Guide to Identification and Analysis, Updated Edition
J. M. Adovasio |
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Being and Becoming Indigenous Archaeologists
George Nicholas (Editor) |
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Belief in the Past
Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion
David S. Whitley (Editor), Kelley Hays-Gilpin (Editor) |
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Beyond the Glass Case
The Past, the Heritage and the Public
Nick Merriman |
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Bioarchaeology
The Contextual Analysis of Human Remains
Jane Buikstra, Lane Beck |
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Black Feminist Archaeology
Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Author) |
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Body and Image
Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 2
Christopher Tilley (Author), Wayne Bennett |
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The Bone Readers
Science and Politics in Human Origins Research
Claudio Tuniz (Author), Richard Gillespie (Author), Cheryl Jones (Author) |
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Box Office Archaeology
Refining Hollywood’s Portrayals of the Past
Julie M. Schablitsky (Editor) |
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Bridging the Divide
Indigenous Communities and Archaeology into the 21st Century
Caroline Phillips (Editor), Harry Allen (Editor) |
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Ceramic Makers' Marks
Erica Gibson (Author) |
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Ceramics Before Farming
The Dispersal of Pottery Among Prehistoric Eurasian Hunter-Gatherers
Peter Jordan, Marek Zvelebil |
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Ceramics of the Merv Oasis
Recycling the City
Gabriele Puschnigg (Author) |
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Chinese Export Porcelains
Andrew D. Madsen |
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Coexistence and Cultural Transmission in East Asia
Naoko Matsumoto (Editor), Hidetaka Bessho (Editor), Makoto Tomii (Editor) |
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Consuming Ancient Egypt
Sally MacDonald (Editor), Michael Rice (Editor) |
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Controversies in Archaeology
Alice Beck Kehoe |
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Dame Kathleen Kenyon
Digging Up the Holy Land
Miriam Davis |
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Debating Archaeology
Updated Edition
Lewis R. Binford |
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Decolonizing Conservation
Caring for Maori Meeting Houses outside New Zealand
Dean Sully (Editor) |
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Doing Archaeology
A Cultural Resource Management Perspective
Thomas F. King (Author) |
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The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden
An Introduction and Guide
Christopher Tilley |
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The Early Mesoamerican Village
Kent V. Flannery |
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Egyptology, the Missing Millennium
Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings
Okasha El-Daly (Author) |
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Empire and Local Worlds
A Chinese Model of Long-Term Historical Anthropology
Mingming Wang |
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Encounters with Ancient Egypt
Complete Set
Peter Ucko (Editor) |
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Envisioning Landscape
Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage
Dan Hicks (Editor), Laura McAtackney (Editor), Graham Fairclough (Editor) |
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The Evolution of Cultural Diversity
A Phylogenetic Approach
Ruth Mace (Editor), Clare J. Holden (Editor), Stephen Shennan (Editor) |
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Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies
A Dialogue
Ethan Cochrane (Editor), Andrew Gardner (Editor) |
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Excavations in Iona 1964 to 1974
Richard Reece |
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Faking Ancient Mesoamerica
Nancy L. Kelker (Author), Karen O. Bruhns (Author) |
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Faking the Ancient Andes
Karen O. Bruhns, Nancy L. Kelker |
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A Fearsome Heritage
Diverse Legacies of the Cold War
John Schofield (Editor), Wayne Cocroft (Editor) |
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Field Methods in Archaeology
Thomas J. Hester, Harry Shafer, Kenneth Feder |
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The Flocks of the Wamani
A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru
Kent V. Flannery, Joyce Marcus, Robert Reynolds |
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A Future for Archaeology
Robert Layton (Editor), Stephen Shennan (Editor), Peter Stone (Editor) |
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A Future for the Past
Petrie’s Palestinian Collection
Peter Ucko, Rachael Thyrza Sparks, Stuart Laidlaw |
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Gender & Italian Archaeology
Challenging the Stereotypes
Ruth D. Whitehouse (Editor) |
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The Goddess and the Bull
Çatalhöyük: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization
Michael Balter (Author) |
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Guilá Naquitz
Archaic Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico
Kent V. Flannery |
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Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology
Soren Blau (Editor), Douglas H. Ubelaker (Editor) |
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Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
Bruno David (Editor), Julian Thomas (Editor) |
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Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology
Jane Lydon (Editor), Uzma Rizvi (Editor) |
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Heads of State
Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes
Denise Y Arnold, Christine A Hastorf |
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Heritage Values in Contemporary Society
George Smith (Editor), Phyllis Mauch Messenger (Editor), Hilary Soderland (Editor) |
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Historical Archaeology
Why the Past Matters
Barbara J. Little (Author) |
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Histories of Maize in Mesoamerica
Multidisciplinary Approaches
John E. Staller (Editor), Robert H. Tykot (Editor), Bruce F. Benz (Editor) |
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Histories of Maize
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize
John E. Staller (Editor), Robert H. Tykot (Editor), Bruce F. Benz (Editor) |
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Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany
Perspectives from the northern temperate zone
Sarah Mason (Editor), Jon G. Hather (Editor) |
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Identification Guide for Near Eastern Grass Seeds
Mark Nesbitt |
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The Identification of Slags from Archaeological Sites
Hans-Gert Bachmann |
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The Identification of the Northern European Woods
A guide for archaeologists and conservators
Jon G. Hather |
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Imhotep Today
Egyptianizing Architecture
Jean-Marcel Humbert (Editor), Clifford Price (Editor) |
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Inauthentic Archaeologies
Public Uses and Abuses of the Past
Troy Lovata (Author) |
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Inconvenient Heritage
Erasure and Global Tourism in Luang Prabang
Lynne M. Dearborn, John C. Stallmeyer |
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Indigenous Archaeologies
A Reader on Decolonization
Margaret Bruchac (Editor), Siobhan Hart (Editor), H Martin Wobst (Editor) |
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Interpreting Landscapes
Geologies, Topographies, Identities; Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 3
Christopher Tilley |
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Introduction to Rock Art Research, Second Edition
David S. Whitley (Author) |
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Introduction to Rock Art Research
David S. Whitley (Author) |
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The Invisible Sex
Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory
J. M. Adovasio, Jake Page, Olga Soffer |
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Islamic Art and Archaeology in Palestine
Myriam Rosen-Ayalon (Author) |
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Issues in Environmental Archaeology
Nicholas Balaam (Editor), James Rackham (Editor) |
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Jade Dragon
Sarah Milledge Nelson |
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Kennewick Man
Perspectives on the Ancient One
Heather Burke (Editor), Claire Smith (Editor), Dorothy Lippert (Editor), Joe E Watkins (Editor), Larry Zimmerman (Editor) |
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Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia
Peter Jordan |
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Landscapes of Clearance
Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
Angèle Smith (Editor), Amy Gazin-Schwartz (Editor) |
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The Later Roman Empire Today
Papers Given in Honour of Professor John Mann
D.F. Clark, M.M. Roxan, J.J. Wilkes |
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Legionary Recruitment and Veteran Settlement During the Principate
J.C. Mann |
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Lithic Analysis at the Millennium
Norah Moloney (Editor), Michael J. Shott (Editor) |
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Living Images
Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum
Janet Picton (Editor), Stephen Quirke (Editor), Paul C. Roberts (Editor) |
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Living Under the Shadow
Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions
John Grattan (Editor), Robin Torrence (Editor) |
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The Magic Children
Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race
Roger Echo-Hawk (Author) |
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Mammal Bones and Teeth
An Introductory Guide to Methods of Identification
Simon Hillson |
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Managing Archaeological Resources
Global Context, National Programs, Local Actions
Francis P McManamon (Editor), Andrew Stout (Editor), Jodi A Barnes (Editor) |
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Maritime Archaeology
A Technical Handbook, Second Edition
Jeremy Green |
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Material Culture of Breweries
Herman Wiley Ronnenberg |
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A Millennium of Cultural Contact
Alistair Paterson (Author) |
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Modelling Ecological Change
Perspectives from Neoecology, Palaeoecology and Environmental Archaeology
David R. Harris, Kenneth D. Thomas |
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Mysterious Lands
David O'Connor (Editor), Stephen Quirke (Editor) |
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National Treasure
Peter Bleed |
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Native Title and the Transformation of Archaeology in the Postcolonial World
Ian Lilley (Author) |
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Negotiation Basics for Cultural Resource Managers
Nicholas Dorochoff (Author) |
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Never Had the Like Occurred
Egypt's View of its Past
John Tait |
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A New Human
The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia
Mike Morwood, Penny van Oosterzee |
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Nukak
Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People
Gustavo Politis (Author), Benjamin Alberti (Translator) |
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The Origin of Early Israel; Current Debate
Biblical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
Shmuel Ahituv, Eliezar Oren |
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The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe
Sue Colledge (Editor), James Conolly (Editor) |
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Our Unprotected Heritage
Whitewashing the Destruction of Our Cultural and Natural Environment
Thomas F. King |
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Palaeoepidemiology
The Measure of Disease in the Human Past
Tony Waldron |
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Paleoanthropology and Paleolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China
Wu Rukang (Editor), John Olsen (Editor) |
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Paleoethnobotany
A Handbook of Procedures, Second Edition
Deborah M Pearsall |
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Palestine in the Bronze and Iron Ages
Papers in Honour of Olga Tufnell
Jonathan N. Tubb |
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Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies
Carmel Schrire (Editor) |
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Petrie’s Ptolemaic and Roman Memphis
Sally-Ann Ashton (Author) |
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Placing Animals in the Neolithic
Social Zooarchaeology of Prehistoric Farming Communities
Arkadiusz Marciniak (Author) |
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The Potters of Buur Heybe
Steven Brandt (Archaeological Director), Tara Belkin (Producer) |
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Pottery and the Archaeologist
Martin Millett |
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The Power of Touch
Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Contexts
Elizabeth Pye (Editor) |
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Prehistoric Europe
Timothy Champion, Clive Gamble, Stephen Shennan, Alasdair Whittle |
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Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies, Third Edition
Marcel Kornfeld, George C. Frison, Mary Lou Larson |
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Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains, Second Edition
George C. Frison |
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Prehistoric Woodworking
The Analysis and Interpretation of Bronze and Iron Age Toolmakers
Rob Sands |
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The Prehistory of the Northwest Coast
R.G. Matson, Gary Coupland |
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Prehistory of the Oregon Coast
The Effects of Excavation Strategies and Assemblage Size on Archaeological Inquiry
R. Lee Lyman |
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Privy to the Past
Janet Pape (Producer), Adrian Praetzellis (Producer) |
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Protecting Çatalhöyük
Memoir of an Archaeological Site Guard
Sadrettin Dural (Author), Ian Hodder (Contributor) |
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Reclaiming Heritage
Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa
Ferdinand de Jong (Editor), Michael Rowlands (Editor) |
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Research Problems in Zooarchaeology
D.R. Brothwell, Kenneth D. Thomas, Juliet Clutton-Brock |
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Rethinking Agriculture
Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
Timothy P. Denham (Editor), Jose Iriarte (Editor), Luc Vrydaghs (Editor) |
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Return to Alexandria
An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Revivalism and Museum Memory
Beverly Butler (Author) |
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Saving Places that Matter
A Citizen's Guide to the National Historic Preservation Act
Thomas F. King (Author) |
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Shamanism and the Origin of States
Spirit, Power, and Gender in East Asia
Sarah Milledge Nelson |
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The Silence of Great Zimbabwe
Contested Landscapes and the Power of Heritage
Joost Fontein (Author) |
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Silver Economy in the Viking Age
James Graham-Campbell (Editor), Gareth Williams (Editor) |
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Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange
Exploring Relationships among People, Places, and Things
Alexander A. Bauer (Editor), Anna S Agbe-Davies (Editor) |
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Spirit Bird Journey
Sarah Milledge Nelson |
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Stone Mirror
A Novel of the Neolithic
Rob Swigart |
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Stone Worlds
Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology
Barbara Bender (Author), Sue Hamilton (Author), Christopher Tilley (Author) |
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Thunder and Herds
Rock Art of the High Plains
Lawrence Loendorf |
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The Tombs of the Middle Bronze Age II Period From the ‘500’ Cemetery at Tell Fara (South)
D. Price Williams |
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The Tourists Gaze, The Cretans Glance
Archaeology and Tourism on a Greek Island
Philip Duke |
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Trees and Woodlands of South India
Archaeological Perspectives
Eleni Asouti (Author), Dorian Q. Fuller (Author) |
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Views of Ancient Egypt
Imperialism, Colonialism and Modern Appropriations
David Jeffreys (Editor) |
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What Objects Mean
An Introduction to Material Culture
Arthur Asa Berger |
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Why the Egyptians Wrote Books
John Tait |
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The Wisdom of Egypt
Changing Visions Through the Ages
Peter Ucko (Editor), Timothy Champion (Editor) |
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Woman the Toolmaker
Hideworking and Stone Tool Use in Konso, Ethiopia
Steven Brandt (Archaeological Director), Kathryn Weedman (Archaeological Director), Tara Belkin (Writer, Producer, & Editor), Justin Shipley (Director of Photography and Field Producer) |
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The World System and The Earth System
Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability Since the Neolithic
Alf Hornborg (Editor), Carole L. Crumley (Editor) |
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Writing Archaeology, Second Edition
Telling Stories About the Past
Brian Fagan (Author) |
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Writing Archaeology
Telling Stories About the Past
Brian Fagan (Author) |
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Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2006
Sherry Hutt (Editor), David Tarler (Assistant Editor) |
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Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2007
Sherry Hutt (Editor), David Tarler (Assistant Editor) |
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Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2008
Sherry Hutt (Editor), David Tarler (Assistant Editor) |
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Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2009
Sherry Hutt (Editor), David Tarler (Assistant Editor) |